Posts by Stephen Knightly
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Since you mentioned the Red Gates I will mention my personal hobby-horse: Give the Red Gates and Fence to Motat. They need a better fence and are the natural home for a piece of Auckland's transport heritage.
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"No mention of the Internet...", or digital or trans-media or even games - an industry already larger than Hollywood commercially and with a solid talent base locally.
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The whole science pie needs to be bigger, but I reckon this is an improvement.
Prior to this announcement, the only government support for business-led R&D was via Tech NZ (tax credits only lasted one year). This was 7% of the total govt science budget. (Tech NZ’s $47.4m of the total $671.5m). The vast majority of funding is still going on CRI staff, contestable funds and and blue skies research as it should.
The new grants scheme promises less paperwork than TechNZ (and 3-year certainty without bureaucrats constantly checking to make sure the business R&D fits into their boxes). The changes to CRIs and funding earlier in the year tried to lessen paperwork for public science too.
Business-led R&D has a greater chance of (market) success because one significant part of the equation, is it able to be commercialised?, is already reasonably answered by the major funder of that research (the business).
While politically it's been sold as an investment in science, it's actually an economic development package.
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I reckon the famous 'Red Fence' should be donated to MOTAT - who need a better fence along Gt North Rd and are the appropriate resting place of many of Auckland's transport-related relics.
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And why in this day and age are architects playing with wooden blocks? Why can't I download a 3D PDF of their concept to rotate and view from any angle?
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A lot of people's FAILs of WA are based on the idea that it should be able to understand us. That a computer should be able to understand English and NLP.
What about us learning to understand the machine? Getting better feedback from the machine?
This is one of WA's advantages: it tells us its assumptions and interpretations. Google just takes you straight to something you don't want, and we have to do the filtering.
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I can't believe this wasn't written today. A lot of the underlying points still stand, even if some of the details and players have changed. (Actually, maybe not that many of the players have).
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What many CEOs, especially founders, find hard to do is NOT talk about themselves, their product, their company.
What Rod did well was find a topic ('thought leadership platform' in PR jargon) that was relevant to the wider public (and therefore business, not just technology, journalists) but also had some relevance to his business (which made him an appropriate, credible commentator).
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For those not up with geek-dom, make sure you read Watchmen ASAP. The movie adaption comes out in March.
Regardless of the eventual quality of the movie, it will ruin your enjoyment of the only graphic novel in TIME's list of "Top 100 novels of the 20th Century" if you don't read the graphic novel first. In fact, it's designed to be read at least twice.
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Could you do a one-hour Doctor Who show, I wonder?
Just did a search and found this: 30 years of TV history condensed into a few minutes.
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There was a coverage map at the launch. The cabinet that serves my street comes online on April 18. Cool.
Where can we get a copy of that coverage map? I'm South-side Pt Chev...